Day of the Dead Celebration & Open House

ART AND POETRY HIGHLIGHT BookArtsLA DIA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATION ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1

BookArtsLA invites all to a celebration of Dia de los Muertos, the traditional Mexican holiday devoted to honoring the departed. The event runs from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 1 and will take place at the BookArtsLA studios at 11720 Washington Place in Mar Vista. The celebration will feature hands-on art activities including book making, paper making, and letterpress printing, as well as a Dia de los Muertos-themed poetry reading at 3:00 p.m. by noted L.A. poets Suzanne Lummis, Holaday Mason, Jim Natal, and Gail Wronsky (see below). All ages are welcome and all activities and refreshments are free.

BookArtsLA is a new, nonprofit organization devoted to bringing the beauty of printing, binding, and collecting artists’ and other hand made books to the public. It offers classes, workshops, lectures, and other book-related activities throughout the year. All classes, unless otherwise noted, are held at the BookArtsLA studios.

For further information about BookArtsLA events, classes, and membership, please contact info@bookartsla or visitt www.BookArtsLA.org.

BookArtsLA

11720 Washington Place

Los Angeles (Mar Vista), CA 90066

About the Participating Poets:

Suzanne Lummis has published poetry in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Antioch Review as well as in many anthologies, such as Poems of the American West. A teacher, editor, and literary activist, she has two poetry collections, Open 24 Hours, which won the 2013 Blue Lynx Prize, and In Danger.

Holiday Mason is the author of Towards the Forest and Dissolve (both from New River Press). She’s a Dorset Prize and Snowbound finalist. Her books The Red Bowl: A Fable in Poems and The She Series: A Venice Correspondence (with Sarah Maclay) will be released in 2016.

Jim Natal is the multi-year Pushcart Prize-nominated author of 52 Views: The Haibun Variations, Memory and Rain, and two previous poetry collections. The co-founder of indie publisher Conflux Press, he directs The Literary Southwest series at Yavapai College.

Gail Wronsky is the author, coauthor, or translator of eleven books of poetry and prose, including So Quick Bright Things and Poems for Infidels. She lives in Topanga Canyon and teaches creative writing and women’s literature at Loyola Marymount University.